Houdini offers a platform for creating large volumes of labeled synthetic data — artificially generated images and 3D scenes — that other companies and researchers can use to train machine learning models. SideFX also partnered with Endava in April 2025 to publish a suite of computer vision tools in SideFX Labs that automate the creation of annotated training datasets.

Houdini's procedural node system and Procedural Dependency Graph (PDG/TOPS) allow users to automatically vary 3D environments, object configurations, and rendering parameters at scale, producing thousands of labeled image variants without manual effort. The Endava partnership, announced in April 2025, contributed ML Computer Vision tools now distributed through SideFX Labs — the free, open-source companion toolset to Houdini — designed to generate dataset variations and annotations for computer vision training scenarios such as manufacturing inspection and autonomous vehicle training. These tools require no coding skills and are available to any user of the latest SideFX Labs release.